It's genuinely wild how we have reached a point where political satire basically writes itself because the source material is doing all the heavy lifting for us. Usually, you have to actually put in the work to find a politician's weak spot or dig through years of voting records to find a contradiction, but with Donald Trump, the "gotcha" moments happen every five minutes. Most leaders at least try to hide their tracks or go out of their way to disprove an accusation with some convoluted explanation, yet he just does whatever he wants in broad daylight and then looks at a camera and says it never happened. It is not even a challenge to mock him when the lies are so blatant and frequent that you can’t even finish a joke about one before three more take its place. We are living in a reality where the bar is so low it’s underground, and while it might be entertaining for a second, it is actually pretty exhausting to watch someone treat the truth like a suggestion while everyone else is expected to play by the rules. We shouldn’t have to "dig around" to find accountability, but when the person in question is his own walking caricature, the satire stops being a craft and just becomes a transcript of his daily routine.
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